Jellyfish are quickly being realised as a significant problem for coastal communities worldwide, causing huge economic loss to a variety of activities, particularly aquaculture and tourism. TechWorks Marine has been actively involved in developing innovative solutions within the EOJELLY
and JELLYFOR
projects which aim to effectively forecast jellyfish blooms. Our involvement in these EU funded research programmes provide tangible added value in the provision of services to the aquaculture industry.

Recent projects:

The Euripides funded JELLYFOR project, TechWorks Marine deployed one of their coastal monitoring buoys in Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland. This platform has been transmitting valuable oceanographic data for 18 months to Marine Harvest, Ireland, which was used to validate a Jellyfish forecast model.

TechWorks Marine carried out video survey of the seabed as part of an Environmental Impact Statement for a salmon farm in Bantry Bay, Cork, Ireland.

Provision of a real time water quality monitoring system to Salmon farms in Ireland. This system provided salmon producers with invaluable data on Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Chlorophyll and Salinity levels.